Russian Jewish media tycoon Vladimir Goussinsky wrote in a note from jail that his arrest was the work of a government that fears a free press and is moving toward a dictatorship. Russia’s leaders are seeking “a return to the totalitarian past, complete with gulags,” he said.
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